capable of throwing two targets at once, this would be only the second occasion that the Club would actually compete at doubles.

The final shoot of 1888, on December 29th, would have some significance in that a long sought record was achieved. At this competition, a team-match, Louis Henry Davies would accomplish what no other Belvidere gunner had been able to do--have a perfect score. The competition was ten birds and Davies was ten for ten, and he lost no time in flaunting himself as the Club's hero of the day. Some of the trap setting problems were resolved at a short meeting following the shoot, when a resolution was passed Stating that, in the future, the traps be screened and that the captains of sides, or two men chosen by members present, were to set the traps at the same elevation, but in different directions if desired.

As the year ended the Club had some new shooting leaders. It had been a busy year and an especially busy fall. Fred Hyndman had become the best gunner in the Club over the period. Louis Henry Davies, Fred Peters, and Rowan FitzGerald were next in order, and the perennial leader Bill Hobkirk was noted seventh. As stated earlier, 1888 had been the Belvidere Gun Club's finest hour and, although there were some exciting shooting days ahead, the activity would gradually erode, and eventually mark the end of this first era of clay target shooting on the Island.

On January 5th the Club held its third competi- tion in ten days, again at Arthur Peters', and embarked on what was to be a disappointing year for President Blanchard. At the Peters' estate they shot at ten targets set at variable angles, and following that added a little extra by taking one pair of doubles. Almost every member was there and host Peters set the pace, missing only one bird to take first prize. Runner-up for the day was Fred Hyndman with eight.

The Club had, for obvious reasons, done away

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